Sometimes, it’s hard to separate the political news from your favorite “news of the weird” feed. There was so much weird stuff going on along the campaign trail that it’s hard to select the dozen best. But here’s our best effort: 1. Clint Eastwood and his chair. It was the most bizarre moment at a […]
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“When I make a mistake, it’s a doozy,” New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia said a couple generations ago. Washington saw its share of doozies in 2012 as politicians stumbled over their tongues, campaign committees blew millions of dollars and an embarrassing email torpedoed a Senate candidacy as it was leaving port.
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Flush with recent gay rights victories, the Human Rights Campaign launched a new ad Sunday to press the same-sex marriage case as the Supreme Court decides this week whether to consider the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. HRC is the nation’s largest LGBT lobbying group. Even gay activists were surprised by the […]
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Despite leading the GOP to a net loss of two seats in last week’s election, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn earned himself a promotion and is poised to take on the roll of minority whip in the upcoming Congress. In a frank interview with POLITICO, Cornyn ascribed part of the blame to himself […]
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The tea party was in finger-pointing mode Wednesday, and the digits weren’t aimed at President Barack Obama.

Tea partiers placed the blame of the “epic election failure of 2012″ squarely on Mitt Romney and the Republican establishment during a press conference at the National Press Club.

“What we got was a weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country club establishment wing of the Republican Party,” Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin said. “The presidential loss is unequivocally on them.”